Noah's Ark Revisited

Someone is planning ahead:

Norway is to build a "doomsday vault" close to the North Pole housing a seed bank to ensure the continuation of global crop species, a leading science magazine reports.

New Scientist said the vast seed bank, to be built inside a mountain, will house around two million seeds and is designed to safeguard food supplies in the event of nuclear war, climate change, terrorism, rising sea levels, earthquakes or other major disasters. The magazine describes the project as a "Fort Knox for the world's crops". The $3 million facility will hold sample of the all known varieties of the world's crops, said Cary Fowler, director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, an independent international organisation promoting the project.